Editorial: Astorino neglects fair-housing duties

7:02 PM,
Mar. 26, 2013

Don Bosco Community Center in Port Chester had to cut back its after-school hours after a 2012 holdup in federal communitydevelopment funds as a result of the dispute over the Westchester County affordable-housing settlement. Here, Sophia Borda, age 6, makes a house out of a shoebox during her after-school program.

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Federal housing officials, their patience understandably worn thin, have given the Astorino administration an April 25 deadline for finally meeting a key fair-housing obligation, or face the loss of $7.4 million in federal block grants. Communities counting on the long-delayed funds - for projects ranging from pedestrian-safety improvements to senior services - should brace for the loss.

After three years of inaction, there is scant hope of the county executive altering course. The loser in this equation: the many worthy, would-be recipients of the funds.